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In July, PowerProtect DD received an update to DDOS 7.9. In this article I want to talk about a fantastically…
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In July, PowerProtect DD received an update to DDOS 7.9. In this article I want to talk about a fantastically…
A single PowerProtect DD series appliance can hold a staggering amount of backup data within your environment. The DD9900 for…
Where we’re at A few weeks ago I posted a (lengthy) Perl script (and explanation) for running deduplication analysis against…
It’s been a busy couple of months with data protection updates in the Dell Technologies family, and that’s continued with…
Introduced at the same time as NetWorker 19.4, the NetWorker Volume Move system allows you to migrate a backup volume…
Data Domain isn’t just hardware – the hardware-based systems pack some punch, of course, but core to the system functionality is…
Last month I ran a competition to celebrate 2,000,000+ blog visitors. The competition was simple: tell me an example of…
Introduction It’s that time of the year when pundits usually (badly) predict what’s going to happen next year. It’s an…
Particularly if you’re using Data Domain Boost within your NetWorker environment, most of the time your storage nodes exist simply…
I love big Data Domains, don’t get me wrong. When you take an appliance like the Data Domain 9800 that…
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